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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Thu May 12, 2016, 07:54 AM May 2016

Any vi/vim users?

When you're moving the cursor in command mode, do you keep your right index finger on j, or do you move your whole hand left?

Query from an emacs user who likes some aspects of vi....

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Any vi/vim users? (Original Post) Recursion May 2016 OP

I rarely use hjkl for navigation and I'm in vi about 6 hours a day. X_Digger May 2016 #1

i #I have never used vi [esc] :x PowerToThePeople Jul 2016 #2

X_Digger

(18,585 posts)

1. I rarely use hjkl for navigation and I'm in vi about 6 hours a day.

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Sat May 14, 2016, 12:09 AM

May 2016

I tend to move my right hand back and forth from the arrow keys to the keyboard. Yeah, I know I could use the number modifiers, but if I have time to count how many spaces left I need to move, I have time to hit the left arrow X times.

PowerToThePeople

(9,610 posts)

2. i #I have never used vi [esc] :x

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Wed Jul 13, 2016, 09:05 PM

Jul 2016

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